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What is mental illness ? Explain any three methods of treatment of mental illness.

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Mental illness

(i) It is the abnormal change in thinking, feeling, memory leading to change in behaviour and in the manner of talking. The patient may have partial or total loss of memory, self-de-structive behaviour, hallucination etc. 

Treatements – Psychotherapy, Chemotherap, Electric Shock Treatment (ECT)

(i) Psychotherapy (psychological treatment) : It can help the patient to adjust to his sur-roundings (home, place of work, society). Social therapy is aimed at rehabilitation of the victim. Re-creational activities, involvement in family life, removal of maladjustments can give relief, if not complete cure to chronic mental patients. 

(ii) Chemotherapy : Drugs can cure psychoses fully if started early and used regularly e.g. amphetamines, barbiturates etc. 

(iii) Electric shock treatment (ECT) : It is a crude method, used to relieve severe depression. The introduction of the psychotropic drugs has considerably reduced this method.



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